The Disavowed Community
by Jean-luc Nancy
2021-01-01 10:01:50
Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)-a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on "the inoperative community"-Nancy responds in turn with The Disavowed Community. Stemming f...
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Over thirty years after Maurice Blanchot writes The Unavowable Community (1983)-a book that offered a critical response to an early essay by Jean-Luc Nancy on "the inoperative community"-Nancy responds in turn with The Disavowed Community. Stemming from Jean-Christophe Bailly''s initial proposal to think community in terms of "number" or the "numerous," and unfolding as a close reading of Blanchot''s text, Nancy''s new book addresses a range of themes and motifs that mark both his proximity to and distance from Blanchot''s thinking, from Bataille''s "community of lovers" to the relation between community, communitarianism, and being-in-common; to Marguerite Duras, to the Eucharist. A key rethinking of politics and the political, this exchange opens up a new understanding of community played out as a question of avowal.
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